Twenty minutes later."Bzz."
Lin Wu carried two plastic bags as he walked on the sidewalk. All of a sudden, he felt his phone vibrating in his pocket. He then freed one of his hands and took his phone out.
It was Li Luyao replying to his text. "I can"t do it. He Bi keeps chatting with me in the living room. I don"t have an opportunity to get the household register."
"d.a.m.n, your sister…"
Lin Wu involuntarily mumbled. He hurriedly replied to the text. "I will call He Bi to come down to help me carry stuff. You should take the chance and search for the household register."
After a while, Li Luyao replied. "Okay."
Lin Wu closed his messaging app and hurriedly searched his phone book for He Bi"s contact as he.
"Oi? What"s the matter?"
After the call connected, his little aunt"s voice could be heard.
Lin Wu intentionally sucked in a breath of cold air before speaking, "I sprained one of my feet, can you come down and help me carry some stuff up?"
"Sprain your feet?" He Bi was skeptical. "Is this real or fake? Previously, you used this excuse to trick me, causing me to carry your luggage while wearing my high heels. I almost became the one who sprained my leg. You are using this excuse again?"
Lin Wu was astonished. So he had used this excuse before?
He coughed and sucked in another breath of cold air. "It"s real. It"s so painful. I"m even limping when I walk now."
"Oh." He Bi wasn"t moved. She smiled. "You sprained your feet, but your hand is fine. It wouldn"t affect you carrying stuff."
Lin Wu"s face turned black. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Don"t you have a little humanity?"
"I"ll get Luyao to go down and help you then." He Bi spoke and turned to speak to Li Luyao who was beside her, "Your Lin Wu has sprained his feet. He wants you to go down and help him."
Even before waiting for Li Luyao to reply, Lin Wu hurriedly spoke, "Ai, ai, ai. Great Beauty He, Luyao is a guest, don"t you know basic courtesy? How can you get a guest to run errands?"
"Wait, what did you just call me?" He Bi"s tone grew emotional.
Lin Wu silently laughed. This tactic was truly useful. After that, he chortled, "I called you great beauty, am I wrong? In any case, your recent choice of dyeing your hair red is really suitable. It matches your demeanor very well, and you simply look younger by ten years. Oh, ya..there must be a lot of fellow colleagues chasing you at your workplace, right?"
"Hahaha. Aiyo, your guess is so accurate. There are truly quite a lot of suitors chasing me now." He Bi was being praised up to the skies, so much that she almost forgot herself. She pretended to be annoyed. "Sigh, it"s actually quite troublesome. These are all the troubles caused by beauty."
Lin Wu couldn"t help but roll his eyes. He laughed fakely. "So young and so beautiful; youth is invincible. O" elegant great beauty He, can you come down to help me with stuff, please? I"m embarra.s.sed that my vocabulary is limited, so I can only use these insignificant terms to describe you. This wouldn"t make things too difficult for you, right?"
"Wahahaha… no trouble no trouble." He Bi seemed so happy that she turned a little silly. "Obedient nephew, wait for me to come down and help you."
"Alright."
After he hung up, he used force and pressed down on his chest. He felt like his consciousness was injured by the lies he had just spouted.
Forget it, it wasn"t the first time he had used such a method.
Every time he praised He Bi a few times, she would be so happy that she forgot herself. She would even help him to wash his socks happily; she would help him with anything.
Not long later, when Lin Wu walked into his residential building, he saw a red-haired He Bi currently waiting for him at the lift"s entrance.
"Yo, your speed is so quick." Lin Wu was somewhat shocked as he laughed.
"I thought you sprained your feet?"
He Bi glanced at Lin Wu"s legs. He seemed to be walking very stably, where was the sprain?
"I initially sprained it. But after I tried moving it around earlier and ma.s.saged it myself. It has recovered."
He didn"t care how stupid the reason sounded. In any case, he had successfully hoodwinked He Bi and made her come down. He had given Li Luyao enough time for her to find the household register.
"Che, liar." He Bi cast a glance at him unhappily. "You also need me to come down just for these things? You must be playing some trick, right?"
Lin Wu laughed in surprise. "You can also guess it? Didn"t you say that a portion of your intelligence was removed and added to your beauty? Did you add it back recently?"
After speaking, he hurriedly lifted his hands, preparing to block a blow. He was afraid his little aunt would rush over to pinch him.
"Che, I can"t be bothered with you." He Bi snorted. She then turned, pressed the b.u.t.ton for the lift, and entered it.
Lin Wu involuntarily felt astonished. This woman actually didn"t retaliate today?
After the two of them entered the lift. He Bi stood at the lift panel and pressed the b.u.t.ton in pa.s.sing.
The lift"s doors slowly closed as it moved up.
Lin Wu pulled back to a corner. He was afraid that this woman might use the lift"s environment and retaliate against him inside.
"Why are you hiding so far away? You even dare to lie to me? Are you asking to be beaten up?" He Bi cast an annoyed glance at Lin Wu.
"Great beauty He, please don"t hit me." Lin Wu dryly laughed. "You are such a great beauty with a transcendent demeanor. If you really hit me, it will only damage your image and destroy the sense of beauty I have of you."
"Heh, it"s useless for you to say the good things now!" He Bi chuckled gently.
Lin Wu touched his nose. If he praised He Bi in such a manner previously, she would be laughing so much in joy that her face got crooked. Yet, she actually didn"t do so?
"Speak, why did you ask me to come down?" He Bi glared at Lin Wu. "Did you intentionally do this so you can separate me from Li Luyao? What are the two of you planning?"
Lin Wu was astonished. He couldn"t tell that this narcissist was pretty clever.
"Nothing much, it"s just that…" Lin Wu"s brain spun rapidly. He suddenly thought of an excuse and put on a little smile. "It"s just that I"m a little afraid."
"Afraid?" He Bi had a smile that was not a smile as she stared at Lin Wu. It was as though she was saying, "Go on, continue to weave more lies."
Lin Wu moved closer and whispered beside her ear, "When Li Luyao and I took the lift up earlier today, we met a ghost in the lift."
He Bi laughed. "You met a ghost?"
"You don"t believe it?"
Lin Wu had a solemn look on his face and decided to scare her. He lowered his voice. "Today, when I was in the lift. I discovered that someone pressed for the lift on the 4th floor. When the lift stopped, I didn"t see anyone, but after the lift"s door closed, the 9th-floor b.u.t.ton on the lift panel lit up. I think that there"s a ghost on the 9th floor."
He Bi glanced at him and asked, "Did you really see the 9th-floor b.u.t.ton lighting up?"
Lin Wu felt a little depressed. Wasn"t this woman afraid of ghosts? Why did she seem as though she wasn"t afraid this time around?
It seemed like he truly didn"t have the talent to write supernatural novels.
"I naturally saw it." Lin Wu coughed again and continued to try and scare her. "In addition, the 9th floor feels extremely gloomy. There are even bizarre piano sounds that originate from an unknown location. Maybe, the ghost is staying on the 9th floor."
"Oh? If you met the ghost on the 9th floor, what would you do?" He Bi smiled and looked at him.
It was unknown why, but Lin Wu suddenly felt her smile was a little strange. Just when he was preparing to speak, his ringtone suddenly rang out.
Lin Wu took his phone out from his pocket and glanced at the caller Id. He was instantly stunned.
Incoming caller: Little Aunt.
Lin Wu subconsciously glanced at the He Bi beside him; a trace of shadow flashed in his heart. He then put his phone to his ear as the call connected.
After that, he heard He Bi"s voice ringing, "Oi, where are you? I"m already downstairs, why don"t I see you?"
Somewhat dumbfounded, he turned and stared at the He Bi beside him.
"She" smiled at him. But this sweet smile suddenly became incomparably horrifying in his eyes. A chill erupted in his heart, permeating to his whole body.
At the next moment, the lift stopped.
And the floor was…
The 9th floor.